Sentence examples for restrictive sense from inspiring English sources

Catholics tended to interpret the edict in its most restrictive sense.

Sculpture here should be taken in its least restrictive sense to the point where it implies merely an awareness and integration of spatial relations.

In a more restrictive sense, rocket propulsion is a unique member of the family of jet-propulsion engines that includes turbojet, pulse-jet, and ramjet systems.

(Throughout, we use "resource" in the weak sense of "stuff" in the world, with no assumption about whether it has any value to individuals. The term is often used in a more restrictive sense).

When we say of a subjective idea or a judgment that it "grasps" an idea or proposition, respectively, the word 'grasp' is used in a more restrictive sense than before, where it was a thinking being or its mind of which it was said that it "grasps" an idea or proposition.

An official comment on the right to adequate food states explicitly that this right shall "not be interpreted in a narrow or restrictive sense which equates it with a minimum package of calories, proteins and other specific nutrients" (UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights [1999]).

By the time of the Reformation, the use of "saint" was almost exclusively the restrictive, titular sense.

Clearly, this assumption is restrictive, in the sense that it claims an agent may not have uncertainty about his own probabilistic beliefs.

A majority of relay selection rules are restrictive in the sense that they either always use all the available relays or always use just a single relay, such as in [10 18, 20 29].

These assumptions are not so restrictive in the sense that GLRT-based receivers derived under these assumptions still provide good detection performance even if most of the latter are not verified in practice.

Equation (2) is less restrictive in the sense that transmission can take place even when the price differential is less than the transfer cost and suggests an equilibrium condition.